YOUNGSTOWN — Operation Steel Penguins is kicking off in the city to add “additional layers” of protection for residents, the mayor and police chief announced Tuesday.
The name is slightly different from the Operation Steel Penguin that took place a few years ago, but its goal is the same: To bring together local, state and federal agencies to target criminal activity, especially gun offenses.
Mayor Jamael Tito Brown started his remarks about the operation by pointing to a video that students and educators at Taft Elementary School on the city’s South Side recently created called “We Are Peace — We are Taft.”